Pence will be out a week, at least (w/audio)

As Hunter Pence stood in the lobby at the major-league complex at Osceola County Stadium, Brad Ausmus looked at him and informed him that there was a glass door a few feet away.

Pence laughed, but his accident was definitely not funny after he spent much of Monday night at a local hospital getting stitches on lacerations on both hands and knees.

With cuts throughout his body, especially lacerations on both hands and knees, Pence limped into the Astros’ clubhouse Tuesday morning and received plenty of grief for injuring himself by falling through a sliding glass window Monday night.

Pence and his teammates could laugh a bit after the Astros sophomore outfielder spent part of the night in a local emergency room here getting stitches for the accident at his apartment. On the first day of their first full-squad workout, the club learned Pence will be out of action for at least a week.

“It’s pretty silly to have this kind of freak accident happen,” he said. “I didn’t really think I would go through a glass door. Normally it wouldn’t shatter. But somehow it shattered and I was in the middle of a bunch of broken glass. …I was actually very fortunate because none of the glass was stuck into my wounds.”

Pence said he was preparing to go into the hot tub with a friend outside his apartment when he decided to go to the bathroom first. At that point, he had left the door open. Before he headed back, though, he said his friend had shut it.

Immediately after the accident, Pence tried to go shower.

“I tried to just go up to the bathroom to shower to get all the glass off me, but I was bleeding pretty bad,” he said. “I called my parents so they said to call 911.”

Have you ever smashed into a glass door?

Other than Roy Oswalt, who was the last Astros rookie who made you excited about the club like Pence did last year.